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Running and Cheating: regarding Coe, Ovett and Savile
I’d like to believe that Coe and Ovett were clean: they were my heroes. And it’s not possible for them to prove the negative. But their statements do not dispel the doubt.
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Silly Mid-Off
WBGS u12s fifth wicket down. Time to pad up. Sit down, standing up shows a lack of confidence in the boys at the crease. Waiting. McKenzie and Wright are doing OK. I bat at number eight and I don’t bowl, so I don’t know how I got in the team.…
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The Restless Miller
I stared in disbelief and fear for some time, before I finally switched on my bedside light. There was nothing there…
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At Pantclyd Farm
Thomas lay on his side, his head turned away. Richard contemplated him, His mouth was dry as he took in the strong back and the muscular brown arms.
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The Fisherman’s Girl
She said nothing and looked at the milk bottle. Then gave a little shrug of acceptance, but seemed subdued while she ate her cereal. Warning: Suicide theme
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High Barnet Train
Kate, not usually demonstrative, broke off from planting her patch of garden, and ran to give Dad a long, slow hug. Almost as if she knew. Warning: Suicide theme
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Bit Nicer
“The girl in that bed over there says some people die when they have an operation. Is that true?”
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Absolution
…and in that time Mark would sometimes feel his father’s eyes quietly searching his face. But he had held his secret.
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Barry Humphries gets rid of Rik Edwards
At this, Humphries returned to his list to add a few more words, and presented the list to Edwards with an air of finality.
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For Dad
…maybe, underneath it all, I wanted our children to have just as happy a childhood as Rob and I did.
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Nine Million Viruses
There are nine million viruses in Shanghai It’s a shame That one struck poor Debbie down So she missed two days of seeing Peking Town
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I Predict a Diet
And if there’s anyone who comes out here Who only wants to come to there I predict a diet! I predict a diet! I predict a diet! I predict a diet!
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How to do ‘The Times’ Crossword
An article I wrote for “Monocle” magazine in 1981. A total fraud: I’ve never completed the “The Times” crossword in my life.
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